Hurry-graphs; Or, Sketches of Scenery, Celebrities and Society, Taken from LifeC. Scribner, 1851 - 364 pages |
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... perhaps , for the journalist who thus takes topics as they come , and writes without the advantage of prepared taste or previous attention . One extraneous value may attach to these sketches . They are copies from the kaleidoscope of ...
... perhaps , for the journalist who thus takes topics as they come , and writes without the advantage of prepared taste or previous attention . One extraneous value may attach to these sketches . They are copies from the kaleidoscope of ...
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... Perhaps it would interest our female readers to add , that the elder Quincy , who was also present , made a speech in which he tartly called the principal orators to order , they ( Mr. Webster , Mr. Everett and Mr. Winthrop ) having ...
... Perhaps it would interest our female readers to add , that the elder Quincy , who was also present , made a speech in which he tartly called the principal orators to order , they ( Mr. Webster , Mr. Everett and Mr. Winthrop ) having ...
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... perhaps , in antagonism and passionate violence , and we might have had a mob - swaying politician , blind with headlong impulses and intoxicated with his power . It is in his consistent and proportionate endowment , that his greatness ...
... perhaps , in antagonism and passionate violence , and we might have had a mob - swaying politician , blind with headlong impulses and intoxicated with his power . It is in his consistent and proportionate endowment , that his greatness ...
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... perhaps half an hour in our time of arrival - a tax upon transient passengers for the benefit of regular customers on the road , which is , no doubt , politic enough in the stage proprietor , but which , like most other arrangements of ...
... perhaps half an hour in our time of arrival - a tax upon transient passengers for the benefit of regular customers on the road , which is , no doubt , politic enough in the stage proprietor , but which , like most other arrangements of ...
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... perhaps , to get rid of the difficulty by Professor Guyot's theory , that vegetable and human life are not permitted by Na- ture to be luxuriant together ; for , by this law , in proportion as the Cape were barren and untropical in its ...
... perhaps , to get rid of the difficulty by Professor Guyot's theory , that vegetable and human life are not permitted by Na- ture to be luxuriant together ; for , by this law , in proportion as the Cape were barren and untropical in its ...
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Page 244 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we; Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
Page 243 - IT WAS many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 185 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? MACB. Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. LADY M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 243 - In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee ; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 185 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 243 - Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 184 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 185 - But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee!
Page 242 - Irascible, envious—bad enough, but not the worst, for these salient angles were all varnished over with a cold, repellant cynicism, his passions vented themselves in sneers. There seemed to him no moral susceptibility; and, what was more remarkable in a proud nature, little or nothing of the true point of honor.
Page 243 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.